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German suspects had deadline for attacks-report (Sept 15)
reuters ^ | September 8, 2007 | Erik Kirschbaum

Posted on 09/09/2007 10:21:14 AM PDT by prairiebreeze

BERLIN (Reuters) - Three suspected Islamist militants who were planning to attack American targets in Germany had orders to act by Sept. 15 and knew police were hot on their trail before their arrest, a magazine said on Saturday.

The plan was foiled on Tuesday when police arrested two German converts to Islam and a Turk in the biggest German police investigation in the last 30 years.

According to surveillance details published in Der Spiegel magazine, the men had been given a two-week deadline for their planned strikes in a late August call from northern Pakistan that was monitored by German police.

In another detail to emerge on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutors Office in Karlsruhe confirmed a Focus magazine report that the suspects had obtained three small used vans in France and brought them to Germany.

The suspected militants, identified by German media as Fritz Gelowicz, Daniel Martin Schneider and Adem Yilmaz, had material to make bombs with power equal to 550 kilograms of TNT and were believed to be planning simultaneous car bombs across Germany.

Authorities were not immediately available to comment on the reported identities of the suspects.

Officials have said all three had trained in militant camps in Pakistan before forming a domestic cell of the "Islamic Jihad Union" -- a little known al Qaeda-affiliated Sunni Muslim group with roots in Uzbekistan.

According to Der Spiegel, two of the militants mentioned "a disco filled with American sluts" along with airports, nightclubs or a U.S. military base as targets during a July 20 conversation that was bugged by police. Continued...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaedagermany; bomb; deadline; gelowicz; germany; jihadineurope; sept15; september15; sixthanniversary
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The article goes on to say the suspects were fully aware they were being monitored and one got out of their car at an intersection and slashed the tires of an unmarked police car behind them.

This was timed to coincide with the Master Butt-Ugly Muslim Terrorist's latest "video".

1 posted on 09/09/2007 10:21:17 AM PDT by prairiebreeze
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To: prairiebreeze

Either as Nazis or as Islamo-fascists, one way or another, a strain of Germanity sure is keen on wiping out the Jews.


2 posted on 09/09/2007 10:24:42 AM PDT by Defiant (Hunter if we can; Thompson if we can't; Romney if we must, Rudy if we wanna lose.)
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To: prairiebreeze
September 15?

Same day the Patraeus report comes out.

3 posted on 09/09/2007 10:25:24 AM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: prairiebreeze
The time frame is cause for concern. Where were the time lines dictated from?
4 posted on 09/09/2007 10:25:31 AM PDT by kinoxi
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To: LdSentinal

It’s on the 11th isn’t it? Congress set the deadline for the report as the 15th, I believe.


5 posted on 09/09/2007 10:26:47 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (PUT AMERICA AHEAD! VOTE FOR FRED!!)
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To: Defiant
Either as Nazis, as communists or as Islamo-fascists, one way or another, a strain of Germanity sure is keen on wiping out the Jews.

Don't forget the RAF Communist terrorists in the 1970s-1980s. They were virulently antisemitic and cooperated with Muslim terrorists.

6 posted on 09/09/2007 10:28:27 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: prairiebreeze

I had no idea. Thanks.


7 posted on 09/09/2007 10:28:35 AM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: Defiant

Thank you Lord, that they were able to stop these guys! Now, how many are out there still?

By the way, I like your tagline!


8 posted on 09/09/2007 10:28:36 AM PDT by alicewonders (Duncan Hunter. Seriously.)
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To: LdSentinal

Going for a tet offensive...


9 posted on 09/09/2007 10:39:47 AM PDT by MediaMole
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To: prairiebreeze

bump for publicity


10 posted on 09/09/2007 10:40:29 AM PDT by VOA
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To: prairiebreeze
"The three suspects were aware they were under close police observation, Der Spiegel said. At one point, one of the suspects got out of a car at a traffic light, calmly walked back to an unmarked police vehicle behind him and slashed its tyres."
11 posted on 09/09/2007 10:49:01 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: LdSentinal
That's the funny part. The report deadline is the 15th. However, the General will be giving that report on the 11th. Oppsss...appears the terrorist info was wrongo. Read this here.
12 posted on 09/09/2007 10:55:16 AM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: prairiebreeze
This thing is starting to have the smell of a give-away.

What have we not found....what is yet waiting?

13 posted on 09/09/2007 10:57:39 AM PDT by stboz
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To: prairiebreeze
oooo, "American sluts"...

as opposed to woman-hating, goat-bonking, rat-hole-living scums-of-the-earth?

I'd like to declare myself to be

One

HAAAAPPY

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SLUT!!!!

14 posted on 09/09/2007 11:02:48 AM PDT by bannie
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To: prairiebreeze

Knowing this, our government doesn’t block the borders to all members of the death cult?
Then our government is responsible for the next attack.


15 posted on 09/09/2007 11:06:48 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: stboz
This thing is starting to have the smell of a give-away.

What have we not found....what is yet waiting?

You mean like a distraction while another plot goes on unhampered? That's a chilling thought.

16 posted on 09/09/2007 11:12:47 AM PDT by alicewonders (Duncan Hunter. Seriously.)
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To: Defiant
Either as Nazis or as Islamo-fascists, one way or another, a strain of Germanity sure is keen on wiping out the Jews.

It is the Evil One who will inhabit any empty vessel to do his will.

The Evil One wants to destroy Elohim's Chosen People
or the followers of Israel's Elohim : Yah'shua

shalom b'shem Yah'shua
17 posted on 09/09/2007 11:32:44 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: XeniaSt

Same to you, my friend.


18 posted on 09/09/2007 11:39:09 AM PDT by Defiant (Hunter if we can; Thompson if we can't; Romney if we must, Rudy if we wanna lose.)
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To: SolidWood
Don't forget the RAF Communist terrorists in the 1970s-1980s.

My mistake. Could also add the Neo-Nazis, who had a big chunk of white youth in Germany under their sway.

19 posted on 09/09/2007 11:42:55 AM PDT by Defiant (Hunter if we can; Thompson if we can't; Romney if we must, Rudy if we wanna lose.)
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To: Defiant
Same to you, my friend.

May YHvH bless you and keep you:
YHvH make his Face shine upon you:
and be gracious to you:
YHvH lift up His countenance upon you,
and give you peace.
b'shem Yah'shua
20 posted on 09/09/2007 12:02:39 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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